Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.

I've always felt very sympathetic from the first days of writing about women that, whatever the woman, whether she is trying to be a woman in the conventional sense or breaking the boundaries, those struggles are quite difficult.

Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative.

Bodies are becoming our personal mission to tame, extend and perfect.

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.

There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.